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Stories of the UnexplainedFri, 21 Dec 2012 14:32:33 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.25Cloud Atlashttp://realxfiles.com/?p=598
http://realxfiles.com/?p=598#commentsThu, 01 Nov 2012 14:27:37 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=598I fully expected to have trouble sitting through this nearly three hour movie. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised by the fast pace and compelling narrative. I loved the nonlinear storylines, the gripping vignettes and thrilling action sequences.

Moving in and out of time as seamlessly as it weaves in and out of lives and relationships, “Cloud Atlas explores how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.”

]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=5980Prometheus: The Questionshttp://realxfiles.com/?p=551
http://realxfiles.com/?p=551#commentsFri, 13 Jul 2012 21:59:20 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=551Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” is filled with mythology and asks some of the biggest questions man has ever pondered. To it’s credit, it does not offer neatly packaged answers. Instead, it leaves most of the backstories unexplained.

Why did the Engineers change their minds and decide to destroy life on earth? Why did the android David poison Holloway? What is going on in the beginning when the Engineer drinks the black goo?

]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=5510Awakehttp://realxfiles.com/?p=525
http://realxfiles.com/?p=525#commentsSun, 26 Feb 2012 17:15:21 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=525“Awake” is an intriguing drama about a detective (Jason Isaacs, “Harry Potter,” “Brotherhood”) who finds he is leading an arduous double life that defies reality.

Helping Michael to navigate his two realities are his bureau-assigned therapists Dr. Evans (Emmy Award-winner Cherry Jones, “24”) and Dr. Lee (BD Wong, NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”). While both therapists work to untangle his two worlds, Michael has no interest in proving either one is false. But when memories of the accident begin to haunt him, he is forced to confront the truth about what really happened the night of the crash.

]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=5250Darth Sariahhttp://realxfiles.com/?p=516
http://realxfiles.com/?p=516#commentsTue, 24 May 2011 00:31:13 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=516[Humor] “If you will not turn to the Dark Side, perhaps she will…”

]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=5161Falling Skieshttp://realxfiles.com/?p=488
http://realxfiles.com/?p=488#commentsWed, 18 May 2011 14:37:15 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=488Written and produced by Robert Rodat and Steven Spielberg, FALLING SKIES opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back.

“I’m writing this by lantern-light, so I’ll keep my comments brief – which wasn’t always my habit, back when I was a history professor. But since the invasion, I’ve learned to adapt.

The aliens arrived almost seven months ago. At first they stayed in their massive transport ships, hovering over the Earth’s major cities. We had enough time to exhaust every peaceful alternative, including international efforts to communicate with them. All we got was silence. Then they attacked. They hit us with an electromagnetic pulse that wiped out our power grid, our computers, anything electronic. That included fuel-injection car engines, the internet, cell phones, guided missiles, you name it. Everything was knocked out in an instant. And then the skitters finally showed themselves, along with their mechs and their short-range airships. But I’m not here to write about the devastation of the initial attacks. Other historians will do that, once we’ve taken our homes back. Or I should say, our home. Because all of us who survived share one home now: Earth. And we have one common goal: to reclaim it.

To do that, we’ve banded together into resistance units that, in the Boston area, we’re calling the militia. But it’s more than just fighters and encampments. We’re building communities again, helping each other stay strong and hopeful and focused on what to do next. We’ve had enough time to get past the shock of having our planet invaded and occupied by a merciless enemy. Now we’re figuring out what resources we still have, and how we can use them to move forward. It’s the beginning of our new history. That’s why I’m writing down my thoughts about what’s happened so far, and why I’m encouraging others to do the same.

I’m here with two of my kids, Hal and Matt. My middle son, Ben, was taken prisoner by the enemy. But I won’t rest until he’s safe with us again. Ben’s going to be amazed at how the Massachusetts militia has grown in the months since we last saw him. We have a formidable group of fighters now. Some of them are combat veterans who survived the decimation of the Armed Forces. But most of them are like me: ordinary people who picked up guns in order to defend their families.”

Sixty-nine years ago tonight, with World War II in its third, nerve-wracking month, air-raid sirens sounded across Los Angeles as the U.S. Army responded to what it believed was an aerial assault on the city by the Japanese. Seems an undetermined number of flying craft had been spotted over Santa Monica Bay.
By the time the craft—whatever they were—reached the Santa Monica Mountains, powerful Army searchlights had at least one of the objects in sight. And by the time the above photograph was taken, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade had begun firing antiaircraft shells in an effort to shoot them down. More than 1,400 shells were fired—and they all missed.

Come morning, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said in a press conference that the incident had been a “false alarm” aggravated by “war nerves.” At the time, there had been much speculation that the Japanese might be secretly building aircraft bases in Mexico, which would make for an easy attack on L.A. This false alarm, Knox suggested, was a fabricated extension of that fear.

The Los Angeles Times and other papers were not so quick to accept the official version of events. After all, hundreds of eyewitnesses said they saw objects flying through the air. Congressman Leland Ford of Santa Monica called for an investigation to determine whether the incident was a “practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into two million people or a mistaken-identity raid or a raid to take away Southern California’s war industries.”

Either way, the details of an investigation were not shared. The war escalated, and priorities shifted. Pretty soon, the event, called the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, faded into history—until 1983. That’s when the Office of the Air Force decided to conduct its own, 40-year-old investigation.

The timing had much to do with the military’s desire to offset growing claims by ufologists that the L.A.-based episode served as proof that extraterrestrials regularly visit Earth and that the military repeatedly covers it up. In its report, the Air Force concluded that in the wee hours of February 25, 1942, Los Angeles had been visited by a wave of “meteorological balloons.”

It seems silly that the Air Force would spend time and treasure to allege such an unlikely conclusion; how could 1,400 antiaircraft shells not be able to shoot down a slow-flying, low-flying balloon. Then again, it seems equally frivolous to insist, as ufologists do, that the Great Los Angeles Air Raid involved alien aircraft.

Never mind. For unbridled fantasy, beginning on March 11, you can see Hollywood’s version—Battle: Los Angeles—in which Columbia Pictures uses the 69-year-old historical event as a launch point for a modern-day showdown between man and alien for control of the City of Angels.

]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=4761Global Sightings?http://realxfiles.com/?p=461
http://realxfiles.com/?p=461#commentsSat, 23 Apr 2011 05:23:40 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=461This dramatically edited news footage makes a compelling case for increased UFO activity around the world. The strange lights, unexplained meteoro’logic activity, ominous warnings from former area 51 personnel make for a storyline that rivals any that have come out of hollywood.
]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=4615Roswell: Alien Autopsyhttp://realxfiles.com/?p=429
http://realxfiles.com/?p=429#commentsTue, 08 Mar 2011 17:13:40 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=429The History Channel tells the compelling story of Glenn Dennis, a mortician at Ballard Funeral Home back in 1947 when the Roswell Incident occurred. His strange experience at the hospital at Walker Air Force Base and a nurse who tells him of an alien autopsy – a government cover-up of covert Air Force activity or of something out of this world?
]]>http://realxfiles.com/?feed=rss2&p=42913Have We Discovered Alien Life?http://realxfiles.com/?p=396
http://realxfiles.com/?p=396#commentsMon, 07 Mar 2011 18:03:42 +0000http://realxfiles.com/?p=396Yes! says NASA scientist Richard B. Hoover, in a paper published in the online Journal of Cosmology. But don’t pop that champaign cork yet.

“Richard Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils,” according to the journal “in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites.”
The journal continues, “He concludes these fossilized bacteria are not Earthly contaminants but are the fossilized remains of living organisms which lived in the parent bodies of these meteors, e.g. comets, moons, and other astral bodies,” and “that life on Earth may have come from other planets.”

The announcement, which bypassed official channels and scientific protocols, received a tremendous amount of online and media coverage. But not everyone was convinced. The experts are weighing in and they are skeptical.

In his blog Followup thoughts on the meteorite fossils claim, astronomer and Discover magazine contributor Phil Plait says, “it’s my personal opinion that Hoover’s claims are wrong. There are way, way too many red flags here. As a scientist and a skeptic I have to leave some room, no matter how small, for the idea that this might be correct. But that room is tiny indeed, and it looks to me that the search for life beyond Earth will continue, and in time will eventually produce scientifically rigorous results.”

NASA has chimed in. In a news item posted Monday, March 7, 2011, titled NASA Statement on Astrobiology Paper by Richard Hoover the agency says, “NASA cannot stand behind or support a scientific claim unless it has been peer-reviewed or thoroughly examined by other qualified experts.” Adding, “NASA also was unaware of the recent submission of the paper to the Journal of Cosmology or of the paper’s subsequent publication.”